Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1891 — Reward of Industry. [ARTICLE]

Reward of Industry.

A poor friendless lad might hare bo«s lean wandering along the streets looking for employment. Ere presently halted in front of a butcher shop, and, walking boldly up to the proprietor, asked for h job. There was something in the young man's frank, honest countenance, which Itruok the proprietor favorably, M Not afraid of hard work !’’ he asked, “ No,” responded the lad with » trembling voice. “ I have supported my mother and two sisters for five years by hard work.” He waa pnt on trial at $5 a week maul •ng leathery beef, and his sturdy frame and healthy comtitntion came in good jlay. One day an old lady came in to get some beef, and the proprietor told him to attend to the customer. “A teaderloia steak, if yon please,” •aid she. “ Here’s a oat that nobody but the first families get," responded the boy smilingly as he sliced off four pounds ol tough round and cast it with a heavy hand on the scales, jamming it dowc with a quick, dexterous movement, until the indicator marked «x even pounds. Then he snatched it off before the deli* Bate machinery, used to weigh beef, had time to recoil. “Sixpounds and a half, madam, 1 ” he said, looking her square in the face with his clear bine eves. The proprietor of the stall called him in that night, and remarking that he had watched his course carefully, added tbai • a rewwri for his quick, comprehensive fHwp of the business he would raise hit •Mary to $25 per week. This ahow.tks advantage of doing everything well, and when the boy’s mother back in New Jer eey hears of his success there will be joy in that household. Young men startup ant in life should learn to adapt them •dves to their surroundings and nevet f am ‘~ Salt Lak> By a mother-in-law—“ You oaa da

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